Tag: Litigation hold

Litigation holds can retain mailbox data, but that’s it. You can swap litigation holds out for a Microsoft 365 retention policy and gain extra functionality, such as retaining OneDrive for Business content for the mailbox owners. It’s easy to script the transition from litigation holds to retention policy using PowerShell and to show how, we include a fully working script.

Litigation holds were great when introduced with Exchange 2010. Fifteen years on, better methods exist to preserve user information, like eDiscovery holds. It might seem unnatural to move from litigation holds to eDiscovery cases, but this approach allows the preservation of both mailbox and OneDrive content for as long as necessary. Retention policies can serve the same purpose, so choice exists for modern preservation.